Designation/Position- Faculty Position at IIT Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur invites applications for Faculty Position at IIT Kharagpur from eligible and interested candidates.
About- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, an Institute of Eminence (IoE) and the first and the largest in the chain of IITs engaged in teaching, research and development, requires faculty for its various academic units. The Institute invites applications from Indian nationals belonging to SC/ST/OBC/EWS/PwD category, possessing excellent academic background, commitment to top quality teaching, and proven credentials for carrying out outstanding research and development for various Departments / Centres / Schools / Academy. Faculty Position at IIT Kharagpur
Research/Job Area-
FACULTY OF BIO-TECHNOLOGY AND BIO-SCIENCES
- Department of Biotechnology
- School of Medical Science and Technology
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Mechanical Sciences Divi$ipn;
- Department of Aerospace Engineering
- Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
- Department of Mining Engineering
- Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
Electrical & Computer Sciences Division:
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications
- Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
Chemical Sciences Division:
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Rubber Technology Centre
Architecture, Pesiqn & Plannina Pivision:
- Department of Architecture & Regional Planning
- Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design & Management
FACULTY OF SCIENCES
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Geology & Geophysics
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, SOCIAL & ECONOMIC SCIENCES
- Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
- Centre for Rural Development and Innovative Sustainable Technology
FACULTY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
- Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Materials Science Centre
- Cryogenic Engineering Centre
- Advanced Technology Development Centre
- Deysarkar Centre of Excellence in Petroleum Engineering
- School of Nano-Science & Technology
- Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership
- Centre of Excellence on Safety Engineering & Analytics (COE-SEA)
- Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship 10) Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems
SCHOOL OF LAW
1) Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
1) Vinod Gupta School of Management
FACULTY OF BIO-TECHNOLOGY AND BIO-SCIENCES
1) Department of Biotechnology
Biochemical Engineering; Bioprocess Engineering; Biological Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Molecular Parasitology with relevant R&D experience at the M. Tech, PhD and Postdoc levels in Biochemical/Bioprocess/Biological Engineering; Metabolic Engineering with relevant hands-on R&D experience at the PhD and Postdoc levels; Systems and Computational Biology/Synthetic Biology with relevant hands-on R&D experience at the PhD and Postdoc levels. Plant Biotechnology/Plant Metabolic Engineering/Plant Genetic Engineering with relevant R&D experience at the PhD and Postdoc levels.
2) School of Medical Science and Technology
Biophysics/Biological Physics, Computational Biology/Medical Statistics, Medical Physics, Electronics/Electrical Engineering with relevant hands-on R&D experience in healthcare areas
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Mechanical Sciences Division:
1) Department of Aerospace Engineering
Reconfigurable Helicopter, Aircraft and Satellite Control, Avionics, Inertial Navigation, Inter-
Planetary Satellite Mission, Hypersonic and Supersonic Combustion, Ion and Electric Propulsion, Real Time Control of Aerodynamics for Drag Reduction, Aircraft Design, Aeroelasticity, Vibration control of Large Aerospace Structures (At least one degree in Aerospace Engg.)
2) Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering
Farm Machinery & Power [Precision Agriculture, Human factors, Al & ML applications, Automation/ robotics in agricultural operations]; Food Process Engineering [Equipment & Machine Development with hygienic practices & automation, Al & ML applications, Transport Processes]; Aquacultural Engineering [Design of hydraulic structures/ fresh & brackish water farm structures/ fishing gear & cage culture for improved fish production; Fisheries biology].
3)Department of Civil Engineering
Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering; Transportation Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Structural Engineering
4) Department of Mechanical Engineering
For fresh recruits:
Additive Manufacturing; Machining & micro-machining; Surface Engineering; Precision- MicroNano- Engineering; Non-traditional Manufacturing; Robotics; Autonomous Systems & Automation; Casting, Welding & Forming; Thermo-fluid analysis and/or design of Engineering Systems; Thermo-fluid analysis of Biological Systems; Sustainable Energy, Clean energy, Energy storage; Micro and nano-scale fluid flow and heat transfer; Interfacial and Multi-phase flows; Multi-scale and Multi-physics simulation; Refrigeration and Air conditioning; Gas Turbines; IC Engines; Turbomachinery; Multi-body dynamics and control; Mechanics of advanced materials (cellular structures and Metamaterials); Mobility systems; Rotor dynamics; Experimental solid mechanics; Machine condition monitoring; Biomedical engineering;
It is expected that the applicants have excellent academic background throughout, having all BE/BTech and ME/MTech or equivalent degrees in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Production Engineering with minimum 70% marks or 7.5/10 CGPA at the Bachelor and Master level, and PhD in the relevant specialisation they are applying for. Candidates belonging to the thermo-fluid science and engineering specialisation need to have BE/BTech and ME/MTech or equivalent degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
5) Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Sustainable Extractive Metallurgy; Processing of Materials (Joining of Materials, solidification, Additive Manufacturing, etc.); Functional Materials (Energy Materials, Magnetic Materials, Electronic Materials including Thin Films, Bio Materials, etc.); Corrosion and High Temperature Oxidation; Any other Emerging Areas in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.
6) Department of Mining Engineering
Safety, Ventilation, Mine Planning, Mine Environment, Mining Machinery, 10T-Data Analytics, Mine Automation, Mineral Economics, Critical Mineral Processing, Mining Instrumentation, Mining Electrical Requirements, Green Mining, Sustainable Mining, Mineral Business.
7) Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
Marine Hydrodynamics including CFD, potential flow simulations; Marine Structures including Marine safety and risk assessment; Wave hydrodynamics and hydroelasticity; Ship design and production; Control systems of ships/underwater vehicles
Electrical & Computer Sciences Division;
1) Department of Electrical Engineering
Machine Drives and Power Electronics, Control Systems, Power and Energy Systems, Instrumentation and Signal Processing.
2) Department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
Communications, Signal Processing, Wireless Networks, Image and Video Processing, Machine Learning, Circuits and Systems for Signal Processing, VLSI Design, RF and Microwave Engineering, Antenna and Propagation, RFIC.
3) Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Compilers and Programming Languages, Computer Systems (Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Networked Systems, System Security, Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, GPI-J Computing), Software Engineering, Database Systems, Pervasive Computing, Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science, Privacy, Security & Cryptography, Embedded and Cyber Physical Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, Data and Web Mining, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Complex and Social Networks, Formal Methods, VLSI and Electronic Design Automation, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Quantum Computing, Human Computer Interaction.
4) G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications
Wireless Communications, Wireless Networks, Optical Networks, Optical Communications, Telecommunication Security, Information Theory, Signal processing for Communications.
5) Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning (ML): Deep learning, Reinforcement learning, Probabilistic and Bayesian models, Federated learning, Quantum ML, etc.)
Artificial Intelligence (Al): Search and optimization, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Game theory, Multi-agent systems, Planning, Reasoning under uncertainty)
Theoretical, Statistical, Mathematical foundations of Al / ML
Natural Language processing, Speech Processing, Text and Data Mining; Information Retrieval; Computer Vision; Robotics; Knowledge Modeling; Cognitive Al; Human-Computer Interactions
Hardware and Systems for Al and ML; Big Data; Data Engineering;
Ethics of Al (fairness, accountability, transparency, explainability, bias, safety, privacy, trustworthiness); Responsible Al
Applications of Al to domain areas (such as but not limited to Cyber-physical systems, healthcare, bioinformatics, manufacturing, education, energy, earth sciences, transportation, communication, hardware design, social themes, agriculture, law)
Chemical Sciences Division:
1) Department of Chemical Engineering
Transport Phenomena, Fluid flow; Heat and Mass Transfer, Reaction Engineering, Thermodynamics; Instrumentation and Process Control, Pollution control; Biomaterials, Nano and Composite materials; Bioengineering.
2) Rubber Technology
The areas of specializations are as per the requirement of the academic unit.
Architecture, Design & Planninq Division:
1) Department of Architecture & Regional Planning
M. Arch [Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Conservation, Inclusive/Agefriendly Designs, Traditional Designs and Knowledge],
B. Arch + M. Des/M. Arch (Product Design, Sustainable Design, Visual Design, Product manufacturing, Design Theory),
Physical Planning [Sustainable Urban Planning, Housing, Transportation]; Socio-Economic & Regional Planning [GIS & Remote Sensing, Econometrics, Planning Statistics].
M. Arch (Parametric Design, Al, ML, Sustainable Habitats, Energy Auditing, Net Zero buildings, Systems Architecture, Steel Structures, Project Management)
2) Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
Sustainable Habitat Design, Net zero Building, Building Energy Systems, Energy Auditing, Sustainable Habitats, Housing Infrastructure Planning and Design, Building Information
Management, Construction Project Management,
Environmental Management, Remote Sensing and GIS, Water Infrastructure, Disaster Management, Waste management and Circular Economy, Urban Transport Management,
Infrastructure Monitoring and Management and Utilities Infrastructure Design.
FACULTY OF SCIENCES
1) Department of Chemistry
Inorganic synthesis: metalloporphyrin, cluster and cages, nanomaterials; inorganic photochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, materials chemistry. Peptides and peptidomimetics, metabolomics, organic materials; enzyme/DNA-RNA based catalysis. Experimental biophysical chemistry and resonance spectroscopy;theoretical reaction dynamics.
2) Department of Geology and Geophysics
Professor: 3-D Seismic tomography
Associate Professor: Remote Sensing and GIS, High temperature/pressure Mineral Physics, SedimentoIogy/Sequence stratigraphy/stable isotope geochemistry, Electrical & EM geophysics.
Assistant Professor: Metamorphic Petrology, Sedimentology/Sequence stratigraphy, Coal/ Petroleum/Basin analysis, Ore geology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry.
Nuclear geophysics, Magnetotelluric (MT) Electromagnetic geophysics, Satellite/Airborne/Drone based geophysics, Mathematical modeling using numerical methods for small and large scale geophysical problems, Seismic method, Gravity and magnetic methods.
Remote Sensing and GIS/Geomorphology/Neotectonics
Groundwater geophysics
3) Department of Mathematics
Professor: Complex Analysis, Fluid Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations, Theoretical Computer Science.
Assistant and Associate Professor: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Coding & Information Theory,
Formal Methods, Machine Learning, Operating System, Computer Architecture, Data Science & Big Data Analysis, Functional Analysis, Topology & Geometry, Mathematical Finance, Number Theory, Partial Differential Equations, Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Probability & Statistics.
4) Department of Physics
Condensed Matter Physics, Devices and Related Technologies; Nuclear Physics; High Energy
Physics; Astrophysics, Gravitation & Cosmology; Physics of Fluids; Statistical Physics; Soft Matter; Nonlinear Physics; Atomic and Molecular Physics; Optics & Photonics; Quantum Computation, Information and Technology; Mathematical Physics.
FACULT_Y_ OF HUMANITIES. SOCIAL & ECONOMIC SCIENCES
1) Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Economics; English [Communication Studies, Language Teaching]; Philosophy [Logic, Business Ethics]; Sociology; Psychology [Industrial, Organizational, Health, Positive, Cognitive, Applied Psychology]; Management [HR, Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Analytics]; Foreign Languages [French, German].
2) Centre for Rural Development and Innovative Sustainable Technology
PhD in Economics, Anthropology, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Economics
FACULTY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES & ENGINEERING
1) Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Industrial Engineering; System Engineering; Operations Research; Production and Operations Managements; Supply Chain Managements; Manufacturing System; System Dynamic and Simulation; Engineering Ergonomics and Human Factors; Safety Engineering and Analytics; Healthcare Systems Engineering Product; Design and Life Cycle Management; Quality Engineering; Information Systems and E-business; Data Analytics.
2) Materials Science Centre
Polymer Rheology and processing; Ceramic Engineering [B. Tech. with specialization in Structural Ceramics].
3) Centre of Excellence on Safety Engineering & Analytics (CoE-SEA)
Safety engineering & management; Safety analytics; Prevention through design (PtD); Probabilistic risk assessment & uncertainty analysis; Ergonomics & human factors; Human error; behaviour& human reliability analysis; Occupational health; Injury epidemiology; Safety Economics; Industrial/ Mine/ Chemical process/ transportation/ Construction/ Infrastructure/ Agricultural/ Manufacturing & machinery/ Electrical/ Fire Safety;Cyber-physical systems safety & security; disaster management, Application of data analytics, virtual & augmented reality, IOT, Al, ML, human sensing technologies and other Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies & techniques in safety.
4) Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems [CoE-IKS]
Sanskrit and Natural Language Processing; other languages of India(Language sciences); Ganita, Bijaganita, Samkhyavishleshantathya(Mathematics, Geometry, Algebra, and Computational sciences); SthapatyaVastuVidya, NirmanVidya and ParibeshaVidya (Builtenvironmental sciences); Nandantathya and Shilpa Shastra (Aesthetics and Design Sciences); ArthaShastra andNyaya Shastra (Economics and Ethical Social sciences); Domains of AYUSH(Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy); Rasayana and BhautikaVidya(Chemical and Physical sciences); Darshan and MahajagatikaVidya (Cosmology, Cosmogony and Astronomical sciences).
5) Cryogenic Engineering Centre
Quantum Materials, Applied Superconductivity, Ultra Low Temperature Techniques; Cryogenic
Processes & Equipments: Liquefaction, Refrigeration, Storage & Transfer
6) Deysarkar Center of Excellence in Petroleum Engineering
Enhanced Oil Recovery, Petrophysics, Petroleum Geoscience, Reservoir Characterization, Well logging, Drilling and Hydrofracking, Reservoir Engineering and Simulations, Geothermal Energy, Carbon Capture, Sequestration and Storage.
7) Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship (RMSoEE)
Ph.D. in any branch of Science, Engineering, Economics and Management preferably having a bachelor’s degree in engineering or science domains with knowledge and knowhow of product development and innovation to support the following areas:
Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship development and ecosystem; Start-up or venture creation; social entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial finance and economics; Growth and Sustainability of enterprises; Entrepreneurial leadership; legal aspects including IPR, marketing management for start-ups, human resources management, Entrepreneurial ecosystem development including incubation, acceleration and funding.
Product Engineering and Innovation: Design Thinking; Product Development; Intelligent Manufacturing; Innovation management and diffusion;
Sectoral Technological Modelling and Development: Energy and Clean Technology; Smart-grid; Healthcare, Entrepreneurship; Bio-innovation; Rural Technology; Waste Management; Data Analytics & Modelling.
Innovative Product development based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Robotics, Electronics and devices, Biomedical devices and personal products, construction technologies, interdisciplinary systems for agriculture, education, cyber physical systems – including robotics, telecommunication, intelligent systems in automotive electronics etc.
Successful candidates are expected to support and provide academic and research support in Innovation and Entrepreneurship to compatible disciplines the institute is involved with.
8) School of Nano Science and Technology
Nanofabrication / Nanoelectronic and Photonic Devices / NEMS / Nanosensors; Bulk nanostructured materials for structural applications; Novel nanomaterials: Synthesis, selfassembly and applications; Nanostructured coatings for energy conversion/storage and surface engineering; Nano-biotechnology; Computational nanostructures
9) Advance Technology Development Centre
MEMS based sensors and Actuators; Integrated Photonics; VLSI and System on Chip (SOC); Mobile Computing for CPS/IoT, Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing for CPS/IoT; Al and ML for CPS, Speech; Image and Signal processing; Robotics & Automated Systems; Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality.
10) Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership
Ph.D. in any branch of Science, Engineering, Economics and Management preferably having a bachelor’s degree in engineering or science domains with knowledge and knowhow of Leadership; Public Leadership and Innovation; Ethical and Etiquette Leadership; Organizational Leadership;
Vedic Leadership; Professional Leadership and Ethics; Transformational Leadership;
Communication & Entrepreneurial Leadership; Strategic Leadership;
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
1) Vinod Gupta School of Management
Marketing Management: Marketing Analytics, International Marketing, B2B Marketing, Sales and Distribution, Retail Marketing, Digital Marketing. Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior: HR Analytics, Labor Relations. Finance and Accounting: Quantitative Finance, Accounting Analytics, Banking, and Corporate Accounting, Financial Technologies (FinTech), Actuarial Modeling, Entrepreneurial Finance. Economics. Business Analytics, Information systems.
SCHOOL OF LAW
1) Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
Tax Law, Labour & Industrial Law, ICT & Automation Law, Corporate Law, Public Law, Criminal and Procedural Law, Intellectual Property Law
Location- Kharagpur
Eligibility/Qualification–
Posts: Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor
Qualifications for the Post: Ph.D. with first class or equivalent at the preceding degree in the appropriate branch with a very good academic record throughout. Ph.D. should have been awarded on or before the last date of application. Experience for the Posts:
| Posts | Experience required for the post |
| Professor | A minimum of 10 years of teaching/research / industrial experience of which at least 4 years should be at the level of Associate Professor in 11Ts, IISc Bangalore, 11Ms, NITIE Mumbai, and IISERs or at an equivalent level in any such other Indian or foreign Institution(s) of com arable standards. |
| Associate Professor | A minimum of 6 years of teaching/research / industrial experience, of which at least 3 years should be at the level of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in 11Ts, IISc Bangalore, 11Ms, NITIE Mumbai and IISERs or in any such other Indian or foreign Institution(s) of comparable standards. |
| Assistant Professor Grade I | At least 3 years of teaching/research / industrial experience, excluding, however, the experience gained while pursuing a Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor Grade 11 | Candidates with less than 3 years’ experience may be appointed on a contractual basis as Assistant Professor Grade Il. At the entry level, they may be placed in Level 10 of Pay Matrix with basic pay of Rs. 70,900 or Rs. 84,800 in Level 11 of Pay Matrix depending upon the experience and shall move to level 12 of Pay Matrix with minimum basic pay of Rs. 1,01,500 on completion of 3 years of requisite experience and on assessment of satisfactory performance. |
[ * ] Foreign Nationals (other than OCIs and PIOs) are encouraged to apply for faculty positions for fixed tenure not exceeding five years on a contract basis subject to clearance from the Government of India (Gol).
Age relaxation for SC/ST/OBC/PwD candidates is applicable as per Government of India norms.
Job/Position Description-
| Position | Level and Pay Matrix | Pay Band (Pre-revised) | AGP (Pre-revised) | Minimum basic pay in pay level | Gross emoluments (approx) including DA/ Transport Allowance at the prevailing rate |
| Professor | Level-14A Pay Matrix: Rs.159100-220200 – | PB-4 Rs. 37,400-67,000 – | Rs. 10,500 | Rs. 1,59,100 | Rs. 2,18,018 |
| Associate Professor | Level-13A2 Pay Matrix: Rs. 139600-211300 – | PB-4 Rs. 37,400-67,000 – | Rs. 9,500 | Rs. 1,39,600 | Rs. 1,91,888 |
| Assistant Professor Grade I | 12 Pay Matrix: Rs. 101500-167400 – | PB-3 Rs. 15,600-39,100 – | Rs. 8,000 | Rs. 1,01,100 | Rs. 1,40,834 |
How to Apply-
Candidates possessing requisite qualifications & experience are required to apply online ONLY (https://erp.iitkqp.ac.in/jobs/auth/facapps.htm) on or before 31-08-2022 Hardcopy of the application is not required. Candidates are requested to upload PDF files of all degree certificates/ testimonials/caste certificates/age proof certificates etc. as file attachments at an appropriate place.
For any other details please contact Deputy Registrar, E-lll, Email: recsec@adm.iitkgp.ernet.in
Last Date for Apply– 28 February 2023
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